Installing mt-daapd on Suse 10

[hhnougat]

Hi Ron,

since my last post I’m gone a step further. I’m able start and stop mt-daapd.
But when I’m requesting the status I get the reply: dead

What does that mean? Because if I start mt-daapd it says done.

Any ideas?

Best regards
Jan

[hhnougat]

If I punch in chkconfig -a mt-daapd on the command line I get the following reply:

0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off

Is this any good?

[rpedde]

@hhnougat wrote:

Hi Ron,

since my last post I’m gone a step further. I’m able start and stop mt-daapd.
But when I’m requesting the status I get the reply: dead

What does that mean? Because if I start mt-daapd it says done.

Any ideas?

Best regards
Jan

look at /var/log/messages. There will be a message telling you why it won’t start. Maybe because “/var/cache/mt-daapd” doesn’t exist, or isn’t readable by the “runas” user?

[hhnougat]

What exactly has to be in the mentioned folder?

[hhnougat]

Hi Ron,

now I had alook at the message file as you recommended.

Dec 8 12:24:36 ham01004 mt-daapd[15107]: Firefly Version svn-1450: Starting with debuglevel 1
Dec 8 12:24:36 ham01004 mt-daapd[15107]: Error opening plugin dir. Ignoring
Dec 8 12:24:36 ham01004 mt-daapd[15107]: Starting rendezvous daemon
Dec 8 12:24:36 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Starting signal handler
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: db_sqlite2_open: unable to open database: @dbdir@/songs.db (@dbdir@/songs.db)
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Error opening db: Misc SQL Error: unable to open database: @dbdir@/songs.db
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Stopping signal handler
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Got shutdown signal. Notifying daap server.

It seems there is a database missing. Where do I get that from?

[rpedde]

@hhnougat wrote:

Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: db_sqlite2_open: unable to open database: @dbdir@/songs.db (@dbdir@/songs.db)
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Error opening db: Misc SQL Error: unable to open database: @dbdir@/songs.db
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Stopping signal handler
Dec 8 12:24:37 ham01004 mt-daapd[15109]: Got shutdown signal. Notifying daap server.

That’s the template config. Wasn’t there a config file (mt-daapd.conf) generated in your contrib directory?

@dbdir@ should have been replaced with the right path — /var/cache/mt-daapd, probably.

[hhnougat]

Hi Ron,

step by step I’m getting further with the setup of mt-daapd.

I’ve got the mt-daapd running on a virtuel machine. But when I start the service on the live machine Igot the following message:”Waiting for music directory to appear…”

The music directory and the directory for the songs.db are on the same physical drive. Everything else is on a diffrent one (the main drive).

Is there anything I’ve to take in account about this constalation?

[rpedde]

@hhnougat wrote:

I’ve got the mt-daapd running on a virtuel machine. But when I start the service on the live machine Igot the following message:”Waiting for music directory to appear…”

That has something to do with your init script (/etc/init.d/mt-daapd). Check that. Something isn’t right with that. Or so I’d guess. That isn’t a message from mt-daapd. Sounds like it’s waiting for a file system to mount or something. Might see if there is a place in the init script to specifiy what you mp3 directory is.

— Ron

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